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Monitoring Therapy Adherence of Tuberculosis Patients by using Video-Enabled Electronic Devices

Authors :
Richard S. Garfein
Alexandru Oprunenco
Maithili Varadarajan
Andrei Dadu
Kelly Collins
Dennis Falzon
Andrew Hayward
Subhi Quraishi
Mukta Sharma
Giovanni Battista Migliori
Rohit Sarin
Viorel Soltan
Alistair Story
Valiantsin Rusovich
Source :
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Story, A; Garfein, RS; Hayward, A; Rusovich, V; Dadu, A; Soltan, V; et al.(2016). Monitoring therapy adherence of tuberculosis patients by using video-enabled electronic devices. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 22(3), 538-540. doi: 10.3201/eid2203.151620. UC San Diego: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3g0008bd, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 22, Iss 3, Pp 538-540 (2016)
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016.

Abstract

© 2016, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All rights reserved. A recent innovation to help patients adhere to daily tuberculosis (TB) treatment over many months is video (or virtually) observed therapy (VOT). VOT is becoming increasingly feasible as mobile telephone applications and tablet computers become more widely available. Studies of the effectiveness of VOT in improving TB patient outcomes are being conducted.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10806059 and 10806040
Volume :
22
Issue :
3
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....302486b547c03510fa86dac1c9103009
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2203.151620.